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Yemen: Coalition used UK missile in unlawful airstrike
The Saudi Arabia-led coalition used a British-made missile to destroy a Yemeni ceramics factory, a civilian object, on 23 September, 2015, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today, based…
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UN expert working group highlights Saudi Arabia’s appalling record on unlawful detention of peaceful activists
A UN Working Group has determined that the Saudi Arabian authorities have arbitrarily detained nine peaceful activists in blatant violation of international law, in an Opinion that sets out damning…
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G20 Summit: Rich countries must pull a U-turn on shameful refugee response
The world’s wealthiest countries must end their shocking inaction and begin to lead a coordinated response to the spiralling global refugee crisis by proposing a concrete plan for resettling the…
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My sister Rania is missing in Syria
I first realized that something was wrong when I couldn't get hold of Rania. I had been calling my sister's house phone and mobile for several days with no answer.…
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Saudi Arabia: 151 executed this year in highest recorded toll in nearly two decades
At least 151 people have been put to death in Saudi Arabia so far this year –the highest recorded figure since 1995 – in an unprecedented wave of executions marking…
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Shaker Aamer Transfer Long Overdue, Upends Guantanamo Myths
In response to reports that Saudi national Shaker Aamer is being transferred to the UK after being held without charge or trial at Guantanamo Bay for more than 13 years,…
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Brazilian cluster munitions suspected in Saudi Arabia led coalition attack in Yemen
Saudi Arabia-led coalition forces appear to have used a Brazilian variant of internationally banned cluster munitions on a residential neighborhood in Ahma in Sa’da, northern Yemen, this week, wounding at…
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Yemen: Bombing of MSF hospital may amount to a war crime
The apparently deliberate targeting and destruction of a hospital supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in northern Yemen last night, which may amount to a war crime, demands an urgent,…
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Saudi Arabia: Prisoner of conscience latest to be convicted in ‘counter-terror purge’ of human rights NGO
The Saudi Arabian authorities today continued their cynical use of a repressive and overly vague counter-terrorism law to purge the Kingdom’s small and embattled civil society by convicting the human…
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“Amnesty International members and activists are my heroes “: 12 Reasons to Write for Rights
Every December 10th on International Human Rights Day, I sit down and write letters as part of Amnesty’s annual global Write for Rights campaign. Why? Because in my 10 years…
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Saudi Arabia: Fears grow that three young activists could soon be executed
There are rising fears about the impending executions of Ali Mohammed Baqir al-Nimr and two other young Shi’a activists in Saudi Arabia who were arrested as juveniles after participating in…
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A Father’s Urgent Plea to See His Son Freed From Death Row in Saudi Arabia
By Mohammed al-Nimr Ali Mohammed al-Nimr was arrested in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province in 2012 when he was only 17 years old. He was sentenced to death after a grossly…